COMMENT: Angry. Upset. Wayne Rooney has every right to be today. Perhaps also vindicated after the Manchester United captain lashed out at the media on Thursday.

But the real villains in this farce. This betrayal. Isn't the identity of those whom cover Rooney for a living. Nor those individual wedding party guests who sold their snaps to the press. Where Rooney's ire should be leveled is the FA and their chief executive Martin Glenn.

Let's get this on the record. After a week of 'wedding-gate' drama, it's now emerged that Rooney did absolutely nothing wrong at the Grove Hotel. He never entered the wedding reception. There was no curfew set by the manager, Gareth Southgate. And there were no orders for Rooney, or any of the other players or staff, to go to bed.

Oh, and it gets worse folks. It's now been established that Rooney chose to stay at the hotel to avoid the public spotlight. 12 of his teammates did go out on the town - but not the England captain. And those snaps? It was with wedding party guests who had left the reception to mix with Rooney and friends in the public bar. A great night, a once-in-a-lifetime experience, which became the 'great Rooney bender' 48 hours later as photos of the night emerged.

That day, Rooney's camp insisted he'd done nothing wrong. He'd had a drink. He happily had photos taken with fans. That was it... and it would've been if Glenn had actually taken the England captain at his word. Instead, there was silence from the FA. And in their cowardice, the vacuum was inevitably filled with more speculation about the night and the consequences for Rooney.

So as the FA kept schtum, we get news from his camp that Rooney had apologised to Southgate, the FA and fans for something which we now know never happened. In other words, out of a sense of duty to the country and responsibility for his role as captain, Rooney fell on his sword. To which, Glenn finally emerged from his friggin' office to declare: "It's disappointing. I think it's appropriate he apologised because it doesn't set a great tone for the England captain but, that said, I don't want to over-dramatise it either."

Over-dramatise? OVER-DRAMATISE? Glenn could've prevented that by having the stones to get on the front foot and believe his captain. To get out in front of the story and at least offer a contrast - with the weight of the FA behind it - to the line being pushed by the op-eds in the press.

But what do you expect? After all, Sam Allardyce is now perhaps one game away from replacing Alan Pardew at Crystal Palace. You remember Big Sam? He was once England manager... for about a week. Where the hell has that story gone? Into the never never? Bungs, backhanders, match-fixing. It was all thrown about. So what happened? Does anybody know? Or was it all a sham? Hanging on the evidence of an Italian agent without a license?

That was when we smelled a rat. Tribalfootball.com does extensive work with Italian agents, but Pino Pagliara had never come across our radar. He wasn't a star for the brilliant Tuttomercatoweb.com or long-time favourite Calciomercato.com. But he was a headliner for the Telegraph. Until, that is, Pagliara confessed to just big noting himself.

So, rather than actually dig into the characters involved. It was hair trigger stuff from Glenn and the FA They gave up Big Sam. Hung him out to dry. Just as they did Rooney last week. But like the United captain today, Allardyce is still standing - and still a wanted man inside the game.

It wasn't supposed to be like this. Coming from the private sector, you hoped Glenn actually had a spine. And given his successful marketing background, no-one could be blamed for expecting a better read of the media and how news cycles work.

Instead, it's been carnage. The England manager dumped without evidence. And the England captain almost sacked on pure speculation. Of course Rooney should be furious - and you wouldn't blame his manager also seeing red today.

It's not bloody Glenn, nor Southgate, who has had to pick Rooney up in the middle of a media storm, amid threats of being stripped of the England captaincy - and even his Three Lions career being brought to a sudden halt. That's been left to Jose Mourinho and his staff. Injuries on international duty are one thing. But this shambles?

"I think people in the media are making a big deal over nothing. I actually didn't even step foot into the wedding and I think it's a shame that I'm having to talk about it now," Rooney declared, defiantly, after victory on Thursday over Feyenoord.

But it wasn't just the media who made a meal of all this. Rooney deserves a public apology from Glenn. After the England captain's act of falling on his sword last week, it's the least he deserves from the FA.